January 1, 1925 to January 31, 2016

The collaboration between Zora Hurston and the Directors of The Museum in folklore entitled “From Sun to Sun” was revolutionary for both the museum and for the African American population at the time. The Museum was known at the time at Rollins to be “a house for the arts”. The theatre worked together with Hurston to present a series of one act plays, musical...

Men’s soccer began as a club team in 1970. Soccer became a varsity sport for the 1975-1976 season after Coach Beaumont successfully argued that if Alma College wanted to promote its connection to Scotland, the College should not ignore Scotland’s national sport.

Although instrumental to the foundation of men’s soccer, Beaumont only coached for the first season. The most successful coach...

Built in the 1920’s, the Hamilton Hotel was built as more modest accommodations than the only other hotel in town. The other hotel, the Seminole Hotel, boasted of visitors of such caliber as Henry Flagler, William Rockefeller, and even United States President Grover Cleveland. The Hamilton Hotel was the first in Winter Park to have a bathroom in each room; while it may seem strange to not have...

The 1970's became fertile ground for public outrage and violence against the American establishment due to national economic stress, assassinations of public figures, the Vietnam War, and other political scandals. By the 70's it seemed to a significant amount of Americans, that what the government wanted to portray and what they were realistically taking care of were two very different truths. What...

In the early 1970s, representatives of the United Automobile Workers' union presented a picture of deprivation to the City of Detroit. The influential Motor City workers union had created a map which literally illustrated the isolation of urban residents; isolation from any large city-facilitated parks. For residents of the City of Detroit, there are no parks or open spaces within a 30 minute drive...

The 1970s were characterized as an era of protest, activism, and change in America. Anti-war protests against the war in Vietnam and the involvement of the United States in Indochina were popular. As the women's liberation movement continued, the disparity between the needs and agendas of black feminists and white feminists became more evident. In the "Black Women's Liberation" pamphlet, two articles,...

Rashes, eye irritation, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, headaches, double vision, dizziness, skin irritation, loss of fingernails, nervousness, diarrhea, amongst a slue of other dangerous side effects are all results of chemical poisoning. Cesar Chavez, a former migrant farm worker and member of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, took into account all of these illnesses when he was testifying...

Delray residents have been living with the roar of 18-wheeler trucks and congested morning commutes off the Interstate 75 since 1961. The interstate divided Historic Delray, with West Fort Street to the south and Lafayette Boulevard to the north, and created what the City of Detroit called a "natural boundary" between the industrial and residential quarters. At first glance at the land use map prepared...

World War II brought a lot of good opportunities in the workforce for the city of Detroit. Because of Detroit’s powerful automobile industry, they became the epicenter for WWII production. Black men and women were given many more job opportunities. The three major effects that helped black people were economic forces, activism, and government assistance. The most powerful of the three effects...

Lenore Lewis Lawson is an African American woman who grew up on the Near Eastside of Detroit. She lived on Hendrie Street with her parents, brothers and sisters. Her home was just four houses from Hastings (a major thoroughfare in Detroit’s Black community surrounded with small businesses). She said that “she views her years growing up in the old neighborhood as some of the best years of her...